Since 2008, based on saving water and increasing income and developing income-generating agriculture, the town party committee and government have mobilized people in Xuanhua Town to build solar greenhouses and develop greenhouse efficient agriculture, which has further broadened the channels for farmers to increase their income and received good economic benefits. By the end of 2008, Xuanhua Town had built 803 solar greenhouses, including 450 demonstration sites (1 1). The varieties cultivated in greenhouse have also expanded from traditional leeks, gourds, celery and Chinese cabbage to eggplant, watermelon, tomato, cucumber and other fine vegetables, fruit trees, edible fungi and other fields, which has written a new chapter in Xuanhua's production of fine fruits and vegetables. According to the survey, since the winter of 2007, the net income of solar greenhouses in Xuanhua Town has reached 2.8 million yuan, and the average income of each solar greenhouse can reach 3,500 yuan. Xuanhua town is located in the southwest of the county 15km. Xuanhua Town has 40,000 mu of cultivated land, 4,500 households, 1.8 million people. Because it is located in the lower reaches of the four main canals of Rou, Feng, Zhan and Na, drought and water shortage have always been the primary factor restricting agricultural production in Xuanhua Town.
Since 2008, with the implementation of Heihe water diversion scheme, the inflow of main canal has decreased obviously, and the contradiction of drought and water shortage of crops has become increasingly prominent. Faced with the increasingly severe reality of water shortage, since 1999, the town party committee and the town government have organized cadres and masses to go out to observe and study, and mobilized and guided the cadres and masses in Xuanhua Town to develop seed production industry with relatively low water consumption. Driven by policy guidance, interest drive and demonstration of some typical farmers, crop seed production has now developed into one of the characteristic industries with strong momentum in Xuanhua Town. In 2002, eight seed production units successively settled in Xuanhua Town for seed production, covering an area of 3,885 mu, including 3,500 mu of corn, 60 mu of watermelon, 30 mu of wax gourd, 0/30 mu of amaranth/kloc, 80 mu of radish and 85 mu of beans.
In 2008, the town will start with technical services and information guidance, further expand and strengthen the seed production industry, and open up new ways for farmers to increase their income and get rich. Xuanhua Town has 40,000 mu of cultivated land, including 32,250 mu contracted by farmers in old agricultural areas and 7,750 mu of farms in Camel City Development Zone. For many years, the farms in Camel City Development Zone have been limited to the traditional farming methods of planting trees to control desertification and growing grain to improve soil, with insufficient capital investment, extensive management and very low economic benefits. Since 1998, based on the vast land resources, the town party committee and the town government have organized many people to go out for inspection, actively explored new ways to adjust the industrial structure, and vigorously advocated planting varieties of Chinese herbal medicines with drought resistance, barren resistance, low investment and high efficiency in various farms in Camel City Development Zone, which has achieved good economic benefits, promoted the cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines in old agricultural areas, and gradually formed a Chinese herbal medicine planting industry with regional characteristics. In 2002, the planting area of Chinese herbal medicines in Xuanhua Town reached 3,553 mu, and the main cultivated varieties mainly included 26 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, such as licorice, cumin, Bupleurum, Hedysarum, Astragalus, Radix Rehmanniae, winter flower, mint, Vaccaria seed, Platycodon grandiflorum, perilla frutescens, Schizonepeta, Radix Isatidis, Atractylodis Rhizoma and Radix Paeoniae Alba. In 2008, the growth is gratifying and the harvest is in sight.
In 2008, the town plans to pay close attention to technical services and information services, and is determined to solve the problems of blind introduction of drug farmers, low prices of drug dealers and poor sales of medicinal materials, so as to further enlarge and strengthen the Chinese herbal medicine industry and break a new path for the adjustment of industrial structure in Xuanhua Town.